| I remember seeing an ad in Variety, announcing an OUR TOWN musical, to star MARY MARTIN. There was a sort of Pencil drawing of the star, but she came down with the cancer that ultimately killed, and the show never materialized.......... Miss Martin was a childhood fave, but the only time I got to see her on stage was in DO YOU TURN SOMERSAULTS, at Boston's Colonial Theater. Her character, while doing some sort of Yoga stretching on a couch, managed to sing the names of BESSIE MAE SUE ELLER, Miss Martin's childhood friend, whose name was a good luck charm in many of the star's shows. The play, co-starring Anthony Quayle, was set in a Russian Sanatorium. |
